Exploring: Bakbakwalanooksiwae

Support the Podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/cedarsalmon This one is for the advanced placement students.Today, we explore our most complex story yet... one that challenges us to set aside our familiar, Western assumptions about heroes, monsters, and morality.Because these teachings don’t fit neatly into those categories.To understand them, we have to shift our perspective, toward a worldview shaped by land, relationship, and constant transformation.Where the physical and spiritual aren't separate, but deeply-intertwined.Long Claw guides us through the legend of Bakbakwalanooksiwae, the cannibal giant at the north end of the world, and the deeper meanings woven into it.This isn’t just a story about a giant.It’s a story about imbalance, power, and what it means to confront the forces at the edge of being human.This is a conversation that asks more than it answers.And that’s the point.Because some stories aren’t meant to be solved.They’re meant to be returned to… again and again… each time revealing something new.--Want more immersive storytelling? Check out our audiobook Echoes of Our Elders: https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Ronn_Long_Claw_Wilson_Echoes_of_Our_Elders?id=AQAAAEAq8XaxTMLike our music? Listen here: https://ofcedarandsalmon.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-the-coast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.